PAGt'TEN - TWrfMTCUTCAX DAIFV SUNDAY. MCEMER 12. 049 c a aai vrni v raivi av.L"aLF sVXA #la J va.1TX"JUAN AoVy iUYo .. Promoted byHeyle, M' Cagers Face Full Vacation Schedule By B. S. BROWNI Vic Heyliger, Michigan's top- notch hockey pilot, reaped the fruits of his own efforts out at Colorado Springs last March. It was mainly through the per- sistence of the former Wolverine puckster that the National Col- legiate Athletic Association recog- nized hockey and instituted the tournament which would decide the national champion of the ice sport. And when the first playoff rolled around last year, Hey- lger took his twice-beaten sex- tet west to meet the number one squads of the east and far-west for the crown. In the very shadows of Pikes Peak, the Wolverines played Bost- on College and Dartmouth on suc- cessive evenings, winning both contests, 6-4 and 8-4. Though Dartmouth had beat- en the Eagles in regular season play, the Indians proved to be less trouble to the Michigan squad than their brethren from the Hub., With one minute to play in the Boston contest, Michigan was leading the Eag- les, 4-3. John "Snooks" Kelley, the Bos- ton mentor, pulled his goalie and sent six forwards on the ice in an attempt to score and his strategy paid off. The Bostonites tied the score at four-all, with less than 20 seconds to play. But in the overtime period,S Michigan showed its tremend- ous come-back ability and went ahead 5-4 on a beautifully exe- cuted play. Again with one minute left to play, Kelley resorted to the power technique and pulled his goalie. But this time the strategy back- fired. Jack McDonald, Michigan goalie, made a smart save on a Boston shot and cleared the puck to Wally Gacek who was standing near the Wolverine nets. Gacek then came through with an amazing bit of play. He grab- bed the puck, took a quick glance at the gaping Boston nets, and fired an accurate 140-foot shot for the insurance marker. Q WINNING DECADE AT M': Top Athlete and Scholar, Crisler Still Successful M To Complete Pre-Conf eience Play -_ v U U CHRISTMAS MUSIC in Albums and Singles T'was the Night Before Christmas-Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians The Song of Christmas-Fred Waring and his Penn- sylvanians Merry Christmas-Bing Crosby Christmas Hymns and Carols-Victor Chorale, Robert Shaw conducting Christmas Carols-St. Luke's Choristers Christmas Carols-Lyn Murray Singers Merry Christmas Music-Perry Como Christmas Songs-Dick Haymes A Merry Christmas-Roy Bloch, Johnny Long, Monica Lewis Christmas Carols-Organ and Chimes The Messiah-Handel Oratorio chorus of Augustana Col- lege Beloved Church Solos-Harold Haugh, Lydia Summers, Lura Stover and J. Alden Edkins Chimes at Christmas Time-Bibletone Six of the Best Known Christmas Carols-Mixed chorus with violin, harp and organ Hymns of Inspiration-Sung by J. Alden Edkins Merry Christmas-Organ and Chimes Best Loved Hymns-By the National Vespers Mixed Quartet Christmas Music-Ken Griffin at the,Organ CHRISTMAS ALBUMS for CHILDREN Mr. Pickwick's Christmas-by Charles Laughton Dicken's Christmas Carol-Basil Rathbone Dicken's Christmas Carol-Ronald Colman Dicken's Christmas Carol-:-Lionel Barrymore Gene Carroll's Christmas Album for Children A Christmas Fantasie-by the Columbia Children's Music-Story Group Hymns Children Love-Paula Heminghouse and Muriel Wilson This is Christmas-by Irene Wicker, The Singing Lady Fibber McGee and Molly-On the Night Before Christmas The Littlest Angel-by Loretta Young Also MANY CHRISTMAS SINGLES .. . RADIO & RECORD SHOP (4 0 0 Go By HERB MUNZEL As a high school student he was unable to earn an athletic letter . . . in intercollegiate competition he was one of the two men in the history of the University of Chi- cago to earn 9 letters in football, baseball, and basketball . . . as a college coach, he was voted the "Coach of the Year" for 1947. Herbert Orin (Fritz) Crisler, whose career has been one of steady improvement and contin- ued success, retired last spring as head football coach at the Uni- versity of Michigan. He continues as the Director of Athletics, a po- sition which he has held since succeeding the late Fielding H. Yost in 1941. SINCE EITHER one of these jobs involves much mental strain, it must certainly have been some relief to Crisler to turn over the football reins to Bennie Ooster- baan. Crisler is now devoting all his time to the big job of expand- ing the University's athletic pro- gram. In his ten years of brilliant head coaching of Michigan football squads, Crisler com- piled a very outstanding record. His teams have won 71 games, lost 16 with 3 ending in ties. During that time they have col- lected a total of 2234 points while holding the opposition to 732. Crisler, born in Earlville, Illinois in 1899, moved with his family to Minnesota while still in high school. Offered an academic schol- arship, he attended the University of Chicago, where he received his nickname "Fritz." He was named after the famed violinist Fritz Kreisler by his coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. AFTER ENDING his under- graduate days at Chicago, where he was tops both athletically and academically, barely missing Phi Beta Kappa, Crisler remained from 1922 until 1930 as Stagg's as- sistant. From Chicago he moved as athletic director and head coach to the University of Minnesota, where he stayed for two sea- sons and made a good record. He was then called to Princeton as head coach, where his teams were unbeaten in two of the three seasons he was there. Since coming to Michigan in DO YOU KNOW THAT ... In the fourteen years that the "Coach of the Year" award has been given, Michigan is the only school that has had two of its coaches honored. 1938, Crisler has been noted for producing offensive minded teams. The single wing has been used most extensively with a smatter- ing of "T" formation plays mak- ing things all the more interesting for the opposing players and the spectators. Many offers have been made to Crisler to leave his post at the Un- iversity, but so far he has declined all of them, preferring to remain here as on; of the nation's top ad- ministrators in his field.. H. 0. CRISLER ... scholar, too LatY a'' ' a mnSet Pace for '49 Squad By CY CARLTON Coach Cliff Keen's "forty-nin- ers" have a great tradition to up- hold. It's one set by last year's wres- tlers who recovered from late sea- son doldrums to tie for second place in the Western Conference standings, a scant point behind champion Purdue. LAST YEAR'S Wolverine wres- tling aggregation started off the season in winning style. Sparked by Captain Bob Betzig, they took three out of their four Conference tussles, walloping Northwestern and Minnesota, nipping future championship holder, Purdue, 18- 13, and dropping a close contest to Illinois, 16-12. The next week, the Wolver- ines were overpowered -by a strong, defending' champion Iowa, mat squad. Weakened by the loss of Dan Dworsky in the heavyweight division, the grap- plers were no match for the Iowans. The score, 19-9, was an indication of the game Keen- men. The grapplers then journeyed to Bloomington where they lost a close encounter to the Hoosiers, 14-13. Bob Betzig gained the only fall of the meet, when he pinned his opponent in 2:40 of the first period. THE NEXT WEEK again proved fruitless for the Keenmen. They were defeated by an excellent Michigan State squad with three National Collegiate champions in their lineup, 19-8. The next opponent to come up against the Maize and Blue matmen was Ohio State. This match resulted in a 14-14 tie and kept the Wolverine Big Nine dual meet record at an even .500 as the dual season ended. All eyes in the wrestling worldl tehn turned to Champaign, Illi- nois, where the Western Confer- ence championships were being held. Michigan was overlooked in the pre-meet prognostications. All eyes were on Purdue's powerful Boilermakers and the Iowa Hawk- eyes. BUT THE MICHIGAN spirit is not a tangible thing. Rising above the also-rans, Michigan tied for second place with Illinois andl Iowa. Jim Smith, George Curtis, and the ever-reliable Betzig starred in the amazing Wolverine upsurge, Smith taking the Conference 136- pound crown and Curtis and Bet- zig taking seconds in the 145- and 155-pound divisions. Meet Three Foes On Western Trip By ROG GOELTZ Although Friday will witness the homeward trek of Michigan's student body, the cagers of Ernie McCoy will be on hand during the Xmas vacation to round out their pre-Big Nine games. The Wolverines are scheduled to meet four schools before classes resume on Jan. 3, facing Colorado, Stanford, Santa Clara and Toledo Universities. ALL FOUR games will be played on the road. The Wolver- ines swing west opening their va- cation stand at Boulder, Colo- rado on December 17. Two West Coast schools are scheduled for successive nights when Michigan plays the Stan- ford Indians and Santa Clara Broncos on December 20 and 21. Coach ErnierMcCoy will face Toledo in a return engagement while most Michigan followers are Spectators at the Michigan- Pittsburgh basketball game to- morrow night will get a double treat when Coach Newt Lok- en's gymnasts show their wares on the trampoline in a halftime exhibition. The bouncers include Bob Schoendube, national 'tramp' champ last season, Edsel 'Tex' Buchanan, who is pressing Schoendube in intrasquad meets this season, Gordon Lev- enson, Tom Tillman, Dave Lake and Bob Willoughby. shaking off the effects of New Year's Eve when the Wolverines go to Toledo on January 1. THE WOLVERINES will use these four games to develop their floor work and ball handling abil- ity in preparation for the West- ern Conference opener on Jan. 8 against the "Golden Gophers" of Minnesotaat Minneapolis. DO YOU KNOW THAT ... Since Jim Hunt came to Michigan as a trainer, Michigan has not lost a football game. The appearance of the Wol- verines against the two coast teams will be the first time that Michigan has played these schools in recent years and the first time that a coast team has failed to make a trip to Ann Arbor. Last year the Trojans of USC made the journey to Yost Field House and bowed before a cham- pionship bound Wolverine quintet 51-38. COACH ERNIE McCOY will take twelve players on the West- ern trip. Bill Roberts, Mack Su- prunowicz, Pete Elliott, Boyd Mc- Caslin, and Bob Harrison are list- ed as probable starters for the Wolverines. The remainder of the twelve will come from the strong Michigan reserve list paced by Hal Morrill, Irv Wisniewski and Bill Mikulich. When the students come back to their classes, they will find the Wolverines cage quintet set to launch its defense of its Big Nine cage title against Minne- sota, at Minneapolis. This game will find Michigan going against a team coached by the man who gave the Wolverines their first Western Conference title in 21 years, Ozzie. Cowles. DO YOU KNOW THAT .. . 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